New Way to Warm Mars in One Year | Edwin Kite and Robin Wordsworth

Should we move to mars? Warming Mars in a Year using nanoparticles to make mars habitable.

Ever since Mars was found to be cold and lifeless, scientists have explored ways to make it more habitable. On Aug. 7, researchers from the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and the University of Central Florida unveiled a groundbreaking approach in *Science Advances*. They propose using engineered dust particles to potentially warm Mars by over 50 degrees Fahrenheit, making it suitable for microbial life. This method is over 5,000 times more efficient than earlier attempts at warming the planet.

Joining John Michael Godier is Edwin Kite, and Robin Wordsworth on Event Horizon as they discuss this revolutionary breakthrough.

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[KatharineOsborne]

I love how there’s a climate change label on this video.

[seanmcmaster]

Event Horizon Thursday is my favorite day of the week.

[matthewtukwilaparks]

I seen this documentary, there is actually giant reactors within the mountain that melts the ice to create oxygen, it happens fast enough that if you left the habitat you would gasp for air at first but would soon be able to breathe, Kuato knows

[taxirob]

Weird how around 22:00 he talks about how Venus has no water, but never mentions the fact that Mars has no nitrogen. Even if Mars had enough oxygen to support humans (which it doesn't in its ENTIRE mass) it would still need 4x as much nitrogen added to be habitable. Which also could not happen, because if Mars was capable of holding onto an atmosphere it would already have one.

Meanwhile, Venus only needs to be cooled enough for the CO2 to precipitate out for it to have an atmospheric density similar to Earth's. We can get oxygen from mechanically dissociating it from the CO2, and it already has nitrogen, too. And that's exactly what we'll need to do to Earth in the future if we want to keep living here.

Both planets lack magnetospheres, but if we have to economize it would make more sense to cool down Venus than heat up Mars, and spend more on solving the solar wind problem on the former instead.

[Jeonex]

Sitting down with a huge pepperoni pizza for event horizon is the ideal Thursday night

[MCsCreations]

Fantastic interview, John! Thanks a bunch!!! 😃
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

[allezlesrouges]

Not fallen into Event Horizon for a little while. The absence made this visit even more satisfying

[C-M-E]

If there is truly irony in the universe, one day we may find a note on Mars in a subterranean megacity relaying that all population has relocated to Earth due to climate change.

[arodderz]

Event horizon Thursday and some hot chocolate always does it for me. Bring
on the cold, rainy season!

[rogerkirchner]

One of my favorite fellow Missourian's YouTube channel

[joykabolle]

what happens when dust settles on airogell and blocks the sunlight?

[davidkelvon]

I think my favorite part about these ideas is they seem like they would work together nicely.

[reallyryan_]

Fell into the event horizon! Also I'm catching up on shows as I broke my leg and stuck indoors with lots of free time 😅

[EdNoyer]

Could you use small plastic beads in low orbit to allow mars to heat up and build a better atmosphere.

[ohFoou]

Imagine the power of evolution if we unlocked a new world

[csehszlovakze]

nice job at providing "context" youtube 😆

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yes I'm talking about the blue climate change thingy

[jimcabezola]

This makes me wonder if we'll warm, pressurise, and enrichen Mars such that any indigenous life there would again have a chance to grow and evolve "naturally" on the planet.
That could teach us how to live life alongside "alien" lifeforms. More interesting than making Mars more amenable to Earth life...
Undoubtedly, we may have to do that in the millennia ahead when we travel outside the Solar System to "hospitable" environments near other stars.

[iSOULS]

That nervous laughter is something I do also

[ACT]

This all sounds great except without a magnetosphere strong enough to keep the solar wind from stripping away ANY atmosphere you plan to even attempt to add, you're wasting time and effort.

[stricknine]

Great interview! Thanks for the episode!